Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.

True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work!

I'm thirty-four.""You don't look thirty-four.""That's because I'm not married." Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. "Marriage tends to age a woman.

Obviously defense is my strength, but I still need to improve on that. I need to improve on offense. Every part.

When someone says to me "I want to be enlightened." I immediately take a vacation because I know that the person isn't serious. I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment

The thing about crazy people; they don't know they are crazy, that's what make them crazy.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

To love someone is to catch your breath whenever he walks in the room.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.